IMHO the problem with most portal layout's is that if you have multiple "portlets" open and one is changed, the complete page has to be refreshed. Depending on the functionality and the possibility of caching, this can be very time consuming.
Gartner had a site that solved this by having portlets in a single "layer" (I am not a HTML expert, but I think this is what it's called). It looked great, all portlets could be dragged to the location at which you want to have them and they really looked like child windows. Did you ever look at a layout like this to use in Cocoon? (I am sorry I cannot find a link with a sample, it was one of the customizable gartner sites you have to login to. Maybe some one knows what I mean). Michael. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Langham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: vrijdag 3 mei 2002 15:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cocoon Portal - Tabbed layout and Radio integration > > > Those of you interested in the portal components may like to > take a look > here: http://needacake.blogspot.com. The screenshot shows a > preview of a > tabbed portal layout that we will be presenting at Jax2002 in > Frankfurt in a > couple of weeks. In addition we will be showing how to build > and integrate a > new coplet for Radio Weblogs in RSS format. > > Unfortunately - Radio has been having some problems recently > so I could not > post this (yet) to my Radio weblog. :-(. However we hope you > find the new > layout an interesting idea (perhaps for your own portal). > > Matthew & Carsten > > -- > Open Source Group sunShine - Lighting up e:Business > ================================================================= > Matthew Langham, S&N AG, Klingenderstrasse 5, D-33100 Paderborn > Tel:+49-5251-1581-30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.s-und-n.de > Weblogging at: http://www.need-a-cake.com > Cocoon book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712352 > ================================================================= > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
